I was not advocating cuts to Social Security or Medicare. I was suggesting they should be means tested. The Social Security tax cap on earnings should be eliminated and all earnings subject to tax as part of your simplification of the tax code.Clearly, our defense investments are not giving us what we are paying for. The Navy is an example, but when the services have to give waivers for mental health and criminal convictions to get recruits you know something is wrong.Your prejudices are showing.

Paul Ryan attempted a means test for Medicare, it was based upon a voucher system

It was soundly rejected and ridiculed by the Liberals.

You folks have no idea what you want. You want other people to pay half your taxes.

How about we send a voucher to Mr. Robb, and he can buy his own healthcare plan? Based upon his age, health condition, and geography? We'll attach a cola, but he will need to shop around a little, and perhaps use a little prudence when spending his medical dollars?

Why should we provide him with a premium plan with an open network?

Raise taxes to balance the budget?

There is always something to spend money on, from free healthcare to enhanced public pension benefits. Take a good look at NJ and CT. Prime examples of what happens. And the cure is more tax revenue?

I am lucky enough to have an excellent health care plan, and don't need vouchers. The reality that single payer is so successful in European countries that they can provide better health care at one half to one third the cost per patient per year than we do in the US continues to escape you?

You could not be more wrong. Cutting taxes has ALWAYS increased the deficit. No analysis of this tax cut comes to any conclusion but that it favors the rich. Even with dynamic scoring, nobody predicts this tax cut will result in anything but at least a $1.5 trillion increase to the deficit.

Where are you getting your facts? Everything you claim is disputed by the vast majority of economist. http://snips.ly/65U The Market Watch Trump tax calculator reveals I'll pay more. http://snips.ly/19H

Anyone who believes this Trump Senate or House tax cuts will benefit the middle class, the economy, and not the wealthy probably also believes in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus and, that man-made Global Warming is a hoax made up by China.

a. Single parent housewives have to prioritize but not Congress. The Republican Congress of saying "hell no"

b. A coherent strategy of where this nation is going and not the daily whims of a madman or the campaign promises of a despot.

c. Americans here at home who can not afford BIG PHARMA while American pharmacies sell those same drugs abroad for far less

d. Veterans who are not only getting the help that WAS PROMISED but are homeless and considered a drain on the system.

Once upon a time, Americans did what was right not because it was easy but because it was hard and the right thing to do. Now we as a nation can not even agree on what is news or what is true or what American values like protecting women are.